December 2025

🎄✨ What an incredible Christmas Fair! ✨🎄
Our groups worked so hard to create an amazing range of festive goodies from homemade fudge and reindeer food to knitted Christmas crafts, cards, creative plant arrangements, and so much more. Their effort and imagination truly shone through!

A huge thank you to the wonderful businesses and bakers who supported us. The cake table was absolutely mouthwatering, and the generosity from all our donors helped make the event a real success. We appreciate every single contribution.

Thanks to everyone who played a part, we’re thrilled to announce that including extras we raised an amazing £1,510!

With heartfelt thanks to:
Aspire Defence Services LTD Aldershot
Sodexo Aldershot
Metro Bank
#davidlloydclubs
#coopfuneralcare
#AldershotTownFC
#longacresbagshot
#painshillpark
#BirdworldUK
#squiresgardencentres
#lushhairandbeautysalon
#guildfordspectrum
#TheHedgehogsFarnham
#exploretrilakes

#Unilever
#RFU
Mr S Mellor
Mrs AM Mellor
Kate Nixon

Thank you all for helping make this Christmas Fair AMAZING!

November 2025

AUCTION TIME! 🏉

We’re excited to share that we have a current RFU England Rugby shirt, signed by the team, and it’s now up for grabs to the highest bidder in our Solent Auction!

If you’d like to place a bid, simply email:
📩 Jackie.Carr@parksidealdershot.co.uk
Please include your bid amount and your contact details.

🗓 Deadline: Friday 28th November 2025

All proceeds go directly to Parkside, helping us continue our vital work and support.

Don’t miss your chance to own this incredible piece of rugby memorabilia while supporting a fantastic cause! ❤️🏉

November 2025

The Thursday LIFE Project group hopped on the train to London this week for a fun day out at the Paddington Bear Experience! 🐻🚆 As part of our “staying positive through the winter months” activities, this trip was the perfect boost — and Paddington definitely worked his magic. The group had a wonderful time exploring, laughing, and making memories together

October 2025

What a fang-tastic Halloween Disco! Our service users on PIP and the Life Project looked amazing in their spooky costumes — dancing, laughter, and smiles all around! 👻

October 2025

Our Christmas Fair is coming and the groups have been busy preparing lots of lovely delights!!

September 2025

15th August 2025

Our Summer of Fun week has concluded and it has been a truly brilliant week. Lots of FUNdraising has been enjoyed ending with the much loved water splat activity, not sure anyone was left dry! All our thanks to the service users, staff, volunteers and all the parents and carers who supported the different events. The event raised £1,554 just amazing!!

August 2025

Our Summer of Fun has begun. Monday – Car washing and mini fete fun! lots of enthusiastic car washers. Despite the heat everyone had a fab day raising funds for their group!

12th June 2025

Gateway Last night the Gateway group completed their sponsored walk. Luckily the weather held and they had their King lead the procession. Well done everyone! All proceeds go towards their much loved theatre trips👏

2nd June 2025

Thank you to our volunteers. This week is National Volunteer week and we want to say thank you to all of our volunteers. Your time and commitment means so much and really makes a difference!

29th April

Today as part of their travel training the Life Project group took teh bus to Farnham and visited Gostrey Meadows. The group enjoyed a lovely picnic in the sunshine.

16th April

Our annual Easter Bonnet Parade was a real hit. Our thanks to Sodexo whose colleagues collected and donated over a 100 eggs!! Staff Sarah, Kelly and Lee from Sodexo agreed to join us as our judges at the Easter Parade. They chose 5 winners but everyone displayed some really good work! Kelly said she was so glad they were chosen to be judges they just loved it!

14th April 2025

A lovely thank you to Steph who along with family visited us today and donated some Easter eggs for our service users. A huge thank you to all the customers at the Alexandra Hotel Aldershot for your kindness. We shall be sharing these out later this week! Also a special thank you to baby Harley who came along too, everyone enjoyed saying hello and Marley enjoyed the sensory room too

2nd April 2025

Last night’s AGM was a special one as we said goodbye to Chris Harris, who has stepped down as Chair of Parkside after nine years on the board. His leadership has been instrumental in driving incredible initiatives, ensuring they became a reality.

Thanks to Chris’s dedication, Parkside has transformed into a beautiful, welcoming space. From securing vital improvements like the roof to championing countless other projects, his commitment has made a lasting difference.

Beyond his achievements, Chris has been a fantastic advocate and communicator for our charity. His kindness, responsiveness, and unwavering support have meant so much to us all.

We are deeply grateful for everything he has done, and we feel incredibly lucky to have had him as our Chair. Thank you, Chris!

Another huge thank you to the service users who entertained us and to everyone who came along to the event. 

Parkside Annual AGM 1st April 2025

A gentle reminder tonight is our AGM do join us……………

Starts 7pm with a short interlude performance from The Life Project and JET members! Come along and support them.

March 2025

The Life Project group had the opportunity to take part in a food hygiene training session designed specifically for them. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience and found the handwashing activity especially enlightening! They were very proud of their achievement.

March 2025

The Life Project group enjoyed the St John’s Ambulance adapted First Aid course today, Daniel said “the first aid course was important to us” and Stacey said “she now knows how she can help save a life” Thank you so much to Louise for adapting this brilliant course for our guys and of course thank you to all at #stjohnambulance for all your amazing work.

March 2025

January 15th 2025

Today was June’s 70th Birthday, she looked really amazing and so happy celebrating with us all. Everyone sang beautifully before June had the task of blowing out all those candles. What a super cake!

January 2024

We welcomed Roz Chadd the Deputy Leader Hampshire County Council and Cllr David Clifford from Rushmoor Borough Council. Roz joined us to find out more about the work we are doing here at Parkside and see the facilities. The visit coincided with the disco session so she was able to meet Parkside service users and residents of many homes in the community attending this very loud drop in session!